"Some people don't want to make friends, right, what about Wu Heng? Didn't I ask him to come with you? ”

"He was sent by his father to Yan Kingdom to assist his eldest brother, and he already set off yesterday."

Zhao Kuo nodded: "Lian Yun, you said that this time your eldest brother took 50,000 troops to help the Yan Kingdom, can you block the attack of the Huns?" ”

"Should... Can you block it? Lian Yun replied with some hesitation.

Yan Ning pondered for a moment and replied: "Now my Yan army has blocked the Xiongnu army outside Hanguan, as long as the Xiongnu can't capture Hanguan, then my Yandu will not be in danger, so after General Lian Feng leads the troops into my Yan country this time, his father should let him lead the troops to be stationed in Hanguan to defend the Xiongnu, so that the Xiongnu will not be able to attack Hanguan for a long time, and there will inevitably be a shortage of grain and grass, and sooner or later the army will be withdrawn." ”

"Brother Huang..."Zhao Qing'er's voice came in while she was still outside the house, and then she and Li Zhou appeared in front of several people.

"Brother Huang, did Li Ying come to your house just now? When I met him on the road just now, he actually avoided me from a distance, and the dead eunuch now dared not salute me, and when I went back, I told my father and asked him to beat him."

Li Zhou was smiling on the side.

Zhao Kuo also smiled and shook his head when he saw her rude appearance, "Now that everyone is here, let's start sitting down and eating."

After the dishes were served, Zhao Kuo ordered a few dishes that he made himself and said to the Void Monk: "Monk, don't eat these dishes, you can eat the rest."

"Why? These dishes are delicious at first glance."

"Just because I'm your brother, if you don't listen, then you can continue to go out and fast, I don't care about your food, do you have someone else's share when you eat? I specially asked them to come over this time to try my craft."

The Void Monk didn't pay attention to Zhao Kuo directly, and had already begun to stuff food into his mouth vigorously, but he didn't eat the dishes made by Zhao Kuo obediently.

Zhao Kuo nodded with satisfaction when he saw it, and then beckoned everyone: "Come on, come and try my craftsmanship, I guarantee that you have never eaten these dishes."

Zhao Qing'er picked up a piece of pork ribs and put it in her mouth, and then shouted: "It's delicious, it's delicious, Brother Huang, you are so delicious" While eating, she grabbed it directly with her hands, not to mention that her mouth was full of stuff, and her mouth was full of oil.

Several other people were also full of praise after tasting it, praising Zhao Kuo's good craftsmanship.

The void monk looked at the pork ribs that smelled fragrant, and wanted to stretch out his chopsticks to clamp it, but after looking at Zhao Kuo, he gave up again, Zhao Kuo saw him like this, smiled, and then gave him some dishes to his bowl.

Zhao Kuo and Lian Yun Li Zhou drank wine, and after three rounds of wine, Li Zhou stood up, picked up his wine glass and said to Lian Yun: "Lian Yun, today through His Royal Highness's invitation to dinner, you and I have a drink, and the unpleasantness of the past will be erased, okay?" ”

Zhao Kuo was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect that there was still a contradiction between the two of them before? Could it be that both of them are the second generation of top officials in Zhao State, and in order to compete for the position of first brother, they have fought before? Zhao Kuo thought in his heart.

Lian Yun looked at Li Zhou, and after a moment of silence, he didn't speak, but stood up directly and drank the wine glass.

Li Zhou also followed, tilted his neck, and drank all the wine in the cup.

"You two... Have had a festival before? Because of what? Tell me about it? Zhao Kuo asked curiously.

"Last year, my father asked the two of them to compete, whoever won could marry me, and in the end, Brother Li Zhou won, Brother Lian Yun lost," Zhao Qing'er said while gnawing on the ribs.

Zhao Kuo was very surprised when he heard this, how old is Zhao Qing'er? Emperor Zhao began to hold a martial arts competition for her to recruit relatives? That's too much of a hurry, isn't it?

"Lian Yun, you lost to Li Zhou in the end, so you have a grudge against Li Zhou? No way? You're not such a cautious person in my heart," Zhao Kuo asked Lian Yun tentatively.

"How can I Lian Yun be the kind of villain who can't afford to lose, if I really don't have the same skills as him that day, I will lose if I lose, I will definitely not be angry about this, but at that time he actually used despicable means to win me, how can I be convinced that I lost?"

"I didn't" Li Zhou hurriedly retorted: "I have told you many times, I did not use a hidden weapon to hurt you in the competition that day, as for you said that you were suddenly hit by a stone in the leg at that time, it really has nothing to do with me, and I still don't know who hurt you in secret" Li Zhou said and suddenly stood up, raised his palm and said: "Today in front of the four halls, I Li Zhou can swear to the sky, if I hurt you with a hidden weapon that day, I will die as a thousand arrows through my heart in the future"

Lian Yun was stunned when he saw Li Zhou say this, and then sighed: "Forget it, the matter has already passed, and the emperor has already married the princess to you, just wait for the princess to marry into your Li family after the coming-of-age ceremony, it is useless to say anything, in the future, you just need to treat the princess well, this matter is over, you and I don't have to mention it again in the future."

Zhao Kuo now understands why Li Zhou is always with Zhao Qing'er: "Li Zhou, you go to the palace to pick up Qing'er out, every time my father and the emperor allow it?" ”

Li Zhou nodded: "Emperor Zhao has ordered that I can enter the palace at any time and take the princess out of the palace to play."

"Qing'er, do you like your brother Li Zhou?" Yan Ning asked Zhao Qing'er, who was still eating non-stop, at this time.

After that, several people looked at Zhao Qing'er, waiting for her answer, Zhao Kuo saw Zhao Qing'er with a mouth full of oil, and shook his head helplessly for his sister, who is also a princess, look at Yan Ning, no matter what she eats, her appearance is always so elegant, and then look at Zhao Qing'er, there is no appearance at all!

"I like it, but I like this little monk a little now, because he likes to eat like me, hehe"

Yan Ning smiled elegantly after hearing this, and at the same time stretched out her hand to help her brush the hair on her forehead, Li Zhou smiled a little embarrassedly, Zhao Kuo rolled his eyes, he was still too young, after all, he was only twelve years old.

"Alright, now it's time for me to get down to business, there are two things I need you to help me come up with."

When everyone heard Zhao Kuo say this, except for the Void Monk and Zhao Qing'er, who were still only concerned about eating, everyone else put on a posture of listening carefully.

"First of all, today Manager Li came to preach the message, which means that I will recruit people to form a department called the West Patrol Division, you tell me where I should recruit people? What kind of people are recruited? ”

"The Western Patrol Division? What is this for? Are the duties of the Inspection Department the same as that of Mr. Li? ”

"The same, in the future, Li Ying will be renamed the East Inspection Division" I don't know why, as soon as this inspection department was mentioned, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but think of the East Factory and West Factory of the Ming Dynasty in the previous life. It feels like they're very similar, they're all a bunch of eunuchs... Eunuchs,, it's all the eunuchs' business, why do you want me to get the West Patrol Division now? Emperor Zhao wants to castrate himself and become a eunuch?

Sure enough, Lian Yun spoke: "Your Highness, this... What does the emperor mean by this? There are eunuchs in the inspection department, why... How could it make you..."The more Lian Yun spoke, the lower his voice became, and finally when he saw Zhao Kuo with a black face, he shut up before he finished speaking.

"What do you think of now?"

"The emperor has decided, Your Highness, you have no way to refuse, you can only do it, maybe the emperor just wants Your Highness to do something, and he didn't think about it so much"

Zhao Kuo was unhappy, let himself do what the eunuch did, did Lao Tzu treat his son like this? At this time, Zhao Kuo thought of Li Xuan again, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, if only he was there, then he could leave this matter to him with confidence.

"Didn't Your Highness just say that there are two things? What else? Yan Ning saw that Zhao Kuo hadn't spoken for a long time, so she asked him to arrive.

"Oh, the second thing is that I want to ask you, what can I do to make a lot of silver?"

"Your Highness, do you need silver lately? I still have more than a thousand taels in my hand, and I'll have someone send it to Your Highness when I go back, and you can use it first? Lian Yun said after hearing this.

Li Zhou also followed up with a sentence: "I have almost more than two thousand taels there, and His Highness will send it later if he needs it."

Zhao Kuo waved his hand directly at the two of them: "You should keep the little silver for yourself, I want to make a lot of silver, what kind of business can you say?" ”

Lian Yun and Li Zhou glanced at each other rarely, and then they both shook their heads and said they didn't know.

Zhao Kuo was also speechless to himself, why did he think of asking the two of them, both of them are children of famous families, although the family background is not very rich, but they have never lacked silver, they have learned the art of war formation since childhood, how can they know what to do to make money.

"Brother, your cooking is delicious, you can go to open a restaurant," the void monk said coldly.

When Zhao Kuo heard this, his eyes lit up, and he slapped his thigh and excitedly said to everyone: "Yes, can't you make a lot of money by opening a restaurant?" Look at that Li Yan, who opened a lake and made more money, and went out with a silver ticket every day, and took out a few thousand taels of silver casually", thinking of this, Zhao Kuo was full of smiles, and seemed to have imagined that he had made a lot of money by opening a restaurant, bought the left and right houses, and directly changed his mansion into a mansion.

If Li Yan was here at this time, he would definitely be so aggrieved that he cried bitterly, who usually goes out with a few thousand taels of silver when he is fine, and he is full? He specially brought the silver ticket that night, and was going to honor the three princes the next day, who knew that Zhao Kuo would take it all.

"This method is good, your cooking is unique and delicious, after the restaurant opens, it will definitely be overcrowded" Yan Ning smiled and agreed with this method.

Thinking that he was going to do it, then Zhao Kuo said: "I'll go around the city in the afternoon to see if there is a suitable place, can you go together?" ”

"When I took the princess out of the palace, Concubine Rong ordered to send the princess back to the palace as soon as possible, so I will send the princess back to the palace in a while, so I can't accompany His Royal Highness."

Immediately afterwards, Lian Yun also shook his head: "In the afternoon, I will accompany my father to the Black Flag Army barracks, and I can't accompany His Highness."

"I'll be with you, I'll be bored when I go back alone anyway"

In this way, not long after lunch, Zhao Kuo took Yan Ning and the Void Monk out and walked to the streets of the city. As for recruiting people to form the West Patrol Division, Zhao Kuo had already forgotten about it.